Summary Statements

NCCID has provided 14 summaries on health-evidence.ca! This means that you can read a short commentary and see the key findings and practical implications for those reviews up front, before deciding whether you need to see the full review. Visit health-evidence.ca or access the summaries directly below: 

• Abubakar, I., Irvine, L., Aldus, C.F., Wyatt, G.M., Fordham, R., Schelenz, S., Shepstone, L., Howe, A., Peck, M., Hunter, P.R. (2007). A systematic review of the clinical, public health and cost-effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection and identification of bacterial intestinal pathogens in faeces and food. Health Technology Assessment, 11(36), 1-216.
  
  
• Arnold,  S.R., et al.  (2005). Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care.Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4, Art. No.: CD003539 
  
  
• Crepaz, N., Lyles, C.M., Wolitski, R.J., Passin, W.F., Rama, S.M., Herbst, J.H., Purcell, D.W., Malow, R.M., Stall, R., HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis (PRS) Team. (2006). Do prevention interventions reduce HIV risk behaviours among people living with HIV? A meta-analytic review of controlled trials.AIDS, 20(2), 143-57.
  
  
• Gould, D. J., Chudleigh, J. H., Moralejo, D., & Drey, N. (2007). Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2, Art. No.: CD005186  
  
  
• Jefferson, T., Foxlee, R., Del Mar, C., Dooley, L., Ferroni, E., Hewak, B., Prabhala, A., Nair, S., Rivetti, A. (2008). Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses: systematic review. BMJ, 336(7635), 77-80.    
  
  
• Manhart, L. E. & Holmes, K. K. (2005). Randomized controlled trials of individual-level, population-level, and multilevel interventions for preventing sexually transmitted infections: What has worked? Journal of Infectious Diseases, 191, S7-S24.    
  
  
• Ndiaye, S. M., Hopkins, D. P., Shefer, A. M., Hinman, A. R., Briss, P. A., Rodewald, L. et al. (2005).Interventions to improve influenza, pneumococcal polysaccharide, and hepatitis B vaccination coverage among high-risk adults: a systematic review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 28, 248-279.   
  
  
• Rambout, L., Hopkins, L., Hutton, B., & Fergusson, D. (2007). Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus infection and disease in women: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.CMAJ, 177(5), 469-79.      

• Safdar, N., & Bradley, E.A. (2008). The risk of infection after colonization with Staphylococcus aureus.The American Journal of Medicine, 121, 310-315.   
  
  
• Sales, J. M., Milhausen, R. R., & DiClemente, R. J. (2006).  A decade in review: Building on the experiences of past adolescent STI/HIV interventions to optimise future prevention efforts. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 82, 431-436.
  
  
• Tacconelli, E., De Angelis, G., Cataldo, M.A., Pozzi, E., & Cauda, R.  (2008). Does antibiotic exposure increase the risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolation? A systematic review and meta-analysis.  Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 61(1), 26-38.     http://www.health-evidence.ca/documents/18757/Tacconelli__2008__L’exposé_Sommaire_-_Français.pdf
  
  
• Underhill, K., Operario, D., & Montgomery, P. (2007). Systematic review of abstinence-plus HIV prevention programs in high-income countries. PLoS Medicine, 4(9), e275.

• Weiss, H.A., Thomas, S.L., Munabi, S.K., & Hayes, R.J. (2006). Male circumcision and risk of syphilis, chancroid, and genital herpes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 82(2),101-9. 
  
  
• Wright, N. M. J., & Tompkins, C. N. E. (2006).  A review of the evidence for the effectiveness of primary prevention interventions for Hepatitis C among injecting drug users. Harm Reduction Journal, 3(27).

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